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I review The Whitechapel Full Moon Society by Elizabeth DeLozier. I wasn't entirely sold on this Victorian mystery with Jack the Ripper connection.
https://susannashore.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-whitechapel-full-moon-society-by.html
Saturation: How Your Software Will Fail at Scale https://lobste.rs/s/opbpro #video #debugging #historical
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHYCRubnmSM
Energizing a vacuum-tube flip-flop module from a 1948 IBM system https://lobste.rs/s/5pavqs #hardware #historical
http://www.righto.com/2026/07/ibm-604-trigger-tube-module.html
WEBMASTER@ a manifesto for everyone via @vale https://lobste.rs/s/g1rpmg #culture #historical #web
https://brennan.day/webmaster-a-manifesto-for-everyone/
Twenty Years of Pandoc via @eh https://lobste.rs/s/blflqs #haskell #historical
https://pandoc.org/twenty-years-of-pandoc.html
AppleWorks on the Apple II via @davepagurek https://lobste.rs/s/gk7fpf #historical #retrocomputing
https://stonetools.ghost.io/appleworks-apple2/
Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full https://lobste.rs/s/j5xjf2 #games #historical #reversing
https://fabiensanglard.net/quake_shareware_cd/index.html
On building scalable control planes https://lobste.rs/s/zubbzq #distributed #historical
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/08/on-building-scalable-control-planes.html
Japan tried to build an operating system for the entire world, then the US government intervened via @lproven https://lobste.rs/s/mfo0fd #historical #osdev #retrocomputing
https://www.xda-developers.com/japan-tried-build-operating-system-entire-world-us-government-intervened/
50 years of proof assistants https://lobste.rs/s/6gelfg #historical #math #plt
https://lawrencecpaulson.github.io/2025/12/05/History_of_Proof_Assistants.html
Casey Muratori – The Root of The Root of All Evil – BSC 2026 https://lobste.rs/s/p8exgy #video #historical #programming #retrocomputing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpj6r6CjJf8
📚 The Reformatory by: Tananarive Due
Gracetown, Florida
June 1950
Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens, Jr., is sentenced to six months at the Gracetown School for Boys, a reformatory, for kicking the son of the largest landowner in town in defense of his older sister, Gloria. So begins Robbie’s journey further into the ...
https://bookblabla.com/book/the-reformatory
#books #reading #libraries #fiction #horror #generalfiction #historicalfiction #historical
Interview: Doug McIlroy via @fs111 https://lobste.rs/s/hett40 #historical #person #unix
https://tmpout.sh/5/2.html
Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer via @fanf https://lobste.rs/s/mnifuh #hardware #historical
http://www.righto.com/2026/08/spacelab-core-memory.html
Andy Hertzfeld oral history via @binjip978 https://lobste.rs/s/hi2svr #transcript #video #historical #mac #person
https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/300000188/
Antiquated HTML Snippets and Artefacts via @fs111 https://lobste.rs/s/bzwyib #historical #web
https://vale.rocks/posts/html-relics
What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? https://lobste.rs/s/izt4a2 #historical #windows
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260909-00/?p=112683